Part 1 | John Alexander Dowie: A 19th Century Faith Healer's Descent into Madness

Cultish

Jeff Durbin

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Cult, Jesus, God, Spirituality, Spiritual, Apologia Studios, Cults, Apologia, Theology

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🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Join us as popular guest & historian John Collins returns to talk about John Alexander Dowie. (1847-1907) A controversial “faith healer” who migrated to the United States from Australia in the late 1800s. Dowie was referred to by critics of his time as a “confidence man”, a person who appealed to the confidence of victims using deception to convince or persuade them out of money or into submission. In part 1, we look into how Dowie initially tried to create his own cult of personality in parts of Australia and California before entering the Windy City of Chicago and becoming the unstoppable force convincing thousands of converts to migrate into Chicago and eventually to his communal in Zion City, Illinois. You can find out more about John Collins at https://william-branham.org/site/john_collins

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0:00.0	My name is Eddie and I was in a call.
0:09.2	Planet Earth about to be recycled.
0:12.5	Your only chance to survive or evacuate is to leave with us.
0:19.2	Started as an effort by a charismatic creature to build a new society, but it ended, of course,
0:24.2	with the tragic deaths of more than 900 people.
0:27.1	Please, our God's sakes, let's get on with it.
0:30.5	We've lived, there's no other people who lived and loved.
0:33.2	We've had as much of this world as you're going to get.
0:35.6	Let's just be done with it.
0:36.9	Let's be done with the agony of it.
0:38.8	It's the revolutionist suicide.
0:40.8	It's not a self-destructive suicide.
0:43.3	The little pain for this, they brought it upon us.
0:47.2	You're an occult.
0:51.3	I love you and I want you out of it and with Christ.
0:55.0	You're...
0:57.0	Alright, welcome back.
1:03.6	Ladies and gentlemen to Coltish entering the Kingdom of the Colts.
1:07.8	My name is Jeremiah Roberts.
1:08.8	I'm one of the co-hosts here.
1:10.7	I am joined as always by my trusty friend and super sleuth up in Haramanyutah and
1:18.6	you're super secret headquarters.
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